I’m not disputing the benefits of public transit.

I take public transit EVERY DAY. I loved my time city hopping in Europe. I want that SO badly for north america. I’m a very vocal proponent.

I grew up in a rural area. Our small area tried earnestly several times to get a bus route going. First with old school buses and then with some old city buses. They just couldn’t make it work. The population density just couldn’t support it.

My issue, as someone with their feet in two canoes, as they say, is with the mentality that rural populations are rounding areas unworthy of discussion or consideration. Broad statements that erase rural existence is alienating to these admittedly small percentages, but is alienating nonetheless

Rural

You can’t make the hole for the air to escape with your hands though

Milhouse is a meme now?

I’m still missing something here. For it to be useful, I’d imagine that it would need to inform decisions, and do so where existing senses would fail.

At least in my environment, if I can smell rain, I could also just as easily use my eyes to see the cumulonimbus clouds and say “rain, due east”.

In the savanna are there scenarios where the only awareness of rain would be smelling it? Can you derive directionality at 5 parts per trillion? Does it matter?

I can easily imagine someone saying this unironicaly

Also impacting the ratios of where they left from.

A lot of men from Lithuania will work abroad, artificially inflating the ratio of women left behind

I don’t see the two environments as necessarily being at odds in any way.

If implementing feature X is going to take a developer 10 days… It’s going to take a developer 10 days. I can say the deadline is 1 day all I want, it’s going to take 10 days.

If I want to get my Volkswagen golf down a 1/4 mile, it doesn’t matter how hard I push the gas pedal, it’s going to take as long as it takes.

In a corporate environment, if deadlines are what you’re optimizing for, you have options. You can cut scope. You can add resources. You can decrease quality. You can forgo time intensive processes designed to reduce risk. These are still all agile activities. Making deliberate decisions, and continually evaluating those decisions is agile.

Agile doesn’t mean there are no timelines or goals. It’s just that the design and implementation are routinely examined for suitability to your ultimate goals.

So I actually think agile is better suited to corporate environments because of how volatile the definition of delivered value is. Open source projects usually have a less volatile vision

Do you have any idea how many jira states our development workflow has?

I wonder how much appetite there is for project managers and scrum masters in the open source world.

That’s an interesting description of lemmy.ml

I’ll just say that hiding not only the instance, but also any comments from any user registered with that instance has made my Lemmy experience about 1000 times better.

Edit: oh shit I’m thinking lemmyGRAD.ml lol

I don’t think I could if they were strangers. I could if one of the recipients was my kid though.

If it gives you any comfort, I think there were a ton of people who “gave a shit”, but were (and in many encounters I’ve had: still are) just too stupid to realize that “morally withholding” a vote for Kamala was going to enable something incalculably worse.

Those people aren’t evil. Just unbelievably stupid. So much so that they’re a danger to themselves and others. But not evil.

Ok, I’m just going to go ahead and pitch an alternative and then you can weigh in on the relative merits.

In my mind, the issues aren’t the loans themselves, it’s that they’re secured by shares. Billionaires are able to realize real value from those shares without paying taxes in them.

I think if you want to use shares as collateral, you need to pay the taxes on them.

You wanna use shares to back a loan, fine, but the instant you do, all taxes on those shares are due at FMV.

This isn’t without precedent: when an employee has unvested shares with a company and meet a companies retirement eligibility criteria, the IRS sees that those shares are “no longer at substantial risk of forfeiture” and several social taxes are due, despite the shares not being sold or even technically owned by that person.

We can extract fair tax values from securities even before they’re sold. We already do.

Tax the assets used to secure the loans and it gets the taxes into the system without removing voting rights. Win/win, and it’s a scalpel directly targeting the root.

I genuinely believe that these are the things you find yourself wondering about.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Serious question, do you pull the lever in the trolley problem?

Oof owch owie

It was a fucking ballsy move to advertise their Xmas NFL livestreaming during that trainwreck

This is a bad system for several reasons:

-It requires an arbitrary use-agnostic choice of value. Why 10 million? Why not 5? Why not 50?

-it requires an arbitrary time scale. Why 5 years? Why not 3? why not 10? Why not limit once in a lifetime?

We’re defining a system here with numbers out of thin air with no context around anything. These are fundamentally badly designed systems. No amount of fiddling with the parameters will make up for the fact that it’s fundamentally flawed.

Also, beyond that, you would be amazed how many scenarios exist for people and businesses to secure large loans that this would impact. The goal is to actually tax the super rich who are dodging taxes, not kneecap legitimate useage. You’d hurt hundreds of thousands legitimate borrowers and just shove Bezos and Musk into using alternative mechanisms to leverage their security holdings.

I know you think I don’t understand your proposal. I challenge you to consider that I do, and still think you can reconsider the root cause of the issue and come up with alternative ideas. You’re stuck on the loan aspect. That’s a symptom, not the cause.